Intriguing new documentary broadcast on Channel 4 (UK) last night. I know that a good percentage of you regular readers don’t live in the UK so a recap: Martin Durkin analyzed the global warming argument, noting that it is taken as an orthodoxy and looking to see if there were any dissenting voices in the scientific community.
There were.
His suggestion, backed up by many scientists was that Co2(Carbon dioxide) and the earth’s temperature are correlated, but that the relationship is the opposite way round to that assumed by the global warming lobby. ie - it is the rising of the temperature of the earth that produces more Co2 emmissions.
Why is this?
Because the main producer and storer of Co2 on earth are the oceans. As the temperature drops they can absorb more Co2 and as the temperature rises they emit more Co2. And the size of the oceans and therefore the size of these amounts make man-made Co2 emmissions appear tiny.
Scientists lined up to say that if global warming was correct, temperature rises would be higher in the troposphere (ie near the roof of the greenhouse) than down on earth. Which is not backed up by results from weather balloons and satellites.
So if Co2 is not causing global warming, what is?
For centuries men have analysed the sunspots on the sun and again it is the sun that is responsible.
The film even had the Greenpeace founder explaining why he had left the organisation because it was having to become more radical to maintain a voice when over time the mainstream had accepted its basic arguments.
Why is global warming given such credence?
It was posited that pressure came from the left and right. Thatcher wanted to increase nuclear power to reduce reliance on coal and oil and the global warming theories offered another argument for this. Funding went up for research in these areas and the she who pays the piper calls the tune. From the left, after the collapse of communism and Labour’s dropping of much socialist orthodoxy - activists moved to the green agenda. Green politics became a way of legitimizing anti-capitalist dogma.
Melting icecaps? Happens every year. Completely normal. Like leaves falling off a tree in Autumn…So what do you think?! Interesting thoughts that you don’t see in the mainstream media.
Leave some comments please and let’s debate it.
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